Indie Series of the Week Poll Results (December 29, 2013-January 4, 2014)

ADDICTS ANONYMOUS was voted favorite web series of the week.

The results are in from the We Love Soaps "Indie Series of the Week" poll for web series that aired December 29, 2013-January 4, 2014. ADDICTS ANONYMOUS came out on top for the second week in a row.  The return of HUSTLING was next, followed by the mid-season finale of RAGGED ISLE's mid-season finale, and new episodes of KNOCKED DOWN and DECo.

Check out the complete results below including the Favorite Actor, Actress and Couple/Duo of the Week:

RANK	SHOW	LAST WEEK	TOP 3
1	ADDICTS ANONYMOUS	1	5
2	HUSTLING	-	2
3	RAGGED ISLE	-	17
4	KNOCKED DOWN	3	2
5	DECo.	2	1
6	THE GALLERY	7	1
7	THE WALKING TEDD	-	0
8	GAYS ANATOMY	-	0
9	SERIES REGULAR	12	0
10	LUNGS	4	0
11	CONNECTIONS	-	0
12	INTERVENTION	6	0
13	TAINTED DREAMS	-	0
14	LINKS	15	0

See the rest of the poll results and watch last week's Top 3 Indie web series below:

Indie Series of the Week Results (November 10-16, 2013)

THURSTON was favorite indie series of the week, and John C. Bailey
was voted the favorite actor.

The results are in from the We Love Soaps "Indie Series of the Week" poll for web series that aired November 10-16, 2013. The second season finale of THURSTON was voted favorite web series followed by the series finale of THE INN. PROFESSIONAL FRIEND was third, with STALLIONS DE AMOR coming in fourth and HE'S WITH ME finishing fifth.

Check out the complete results below including the Favorite Actor, Actress and Couple of the Week:

RANK	SHOW	LAST WEEK	TOP 3
1	THURSTON	3	9
2	THE INN	-	14
3	PROFESSIONAL FRIEND	1	2
4	STALLIONS DE AMOR	2	8
5	HE'S WITH ME	-	4
6	RAGGED ISLE	-	16
7	METHOD OR MADNESS	10	0
8	FAMILY PROBLEMS	-	5
9	RED CIRCLES	-	5
10	THE LYONS DEN	11	5
11	THE STAFFORD PROJECT	-	0
12	STILL	-	0
13	CLOSE FRIENDS	13	1
14	BROKEN AT LOVE	-	5
15	SILVER SPOON BLUES	18	0
16	THE 'DEVIL	-	0
17	HANDLERS	17	0
18	THE GAUNTLET	19	0

See the rest of the poll results and watch last week's Top 3 Indie web series below:

Indie Series of the Week Results (October 27-November 2, 2013)

RAGGED ISLE picked up where it left off in August 2012 and was voted
favorite indie series of the week.

The results are in from the We Love Soaps "Indie Series of the Week" poll for web series that aired October 27-November 2, 2013. RAGGED ISLE kicked off its third season and was voted favorite show. A new episode of THE INN was second followed by THURSTON and HE'S WITH ME.

Check out the complete results below including the Favorite Actor, Actress and Couple of the Week:

RANK	SHOW	LAST WEEK	TOP 3
1	RAGGED ISLE	-	16
2	THE INN	6	13
3	THURSTON	8	7
4	HE'S WITH ME	-	4
5	NINJAS	-	0
6	DUMPWATER DIVAS	5	0
7	THE LYONS DEN	15	5
8	WHATEVER THIS IS.	-	0
9	THE STAFFORD PROJECT	-	0
10	SALVAGED: A LOVE STORY	7	0
11	PRODUCING JULIET	14	0
12	SILVER SPOON BLUES	16	0
13	VANN	7	0
14	MIDTOWN	-	0
15	CLOSE FRIENDS	-	1
16	HANDLERS	-	0
17	BROTHERS WITH NO GAME	-	0
18	HOW I SEIZE IT	19	0
19	THE GAUNTLET	20	0

See the rest of the poll results and watch last week's Top 3 Indie web series below:

WATCH: RAGGED ISLE Season 3 Premiere

Meghan Benton as Vicki Burke in RAGGED ISLE.

Indie Soap Award-winning RAGGED ISLE is back today with the premiere of its third and final season.

In "Speed of Life," after the horrific events of the previous evening, those on Ragged Isle still alive and accounted for struggle to cope with their changed circumstances as they zero in on an ever-shortening list of suspects.

Watch the Season 3 premiere below:

Watch The 4th Annual Indie Soap Awards

You can now watch the 4th Annual ISAs online. This year's presenters included Colleen Zenk, Kevin Spirtas, Cynthia Watros, Hillary B. Smith, Martha Byrne, Jillian Clare, Daphne Rubin-Vega, Bhama Roget, Brad Bell, Anthony Anderson, Michael Caruso, Sebastian La Cause, Ben Baur, Kayla Olson, Sharon Smyth Lentz and many, many more.  Check out the poignant speeches, the funny moments and all the glamour from the best in independently produced scripted and serialized programming for the Web below.



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WATCH: RAGGED ISLE Season 3 Trailer

RAGGED ISLE has been nominated for fourteen Indie Soap Awards (ISAs) and won four including Best Drama at the 2012 ISAs. The third and final season looks to be the best one yet.

Voices of the past and visions of the future combine to create the newly released trailer for RAGGED ISLE, which will launch Season 3 this fall. Check it out below:

ISA4: Best Web Series (Drama) Montage

OUT WITH DAD was named Best Web Series (Drama) at the 4th Annual Indie Soap Awards. Check out a montage of all the nominees that aired that night below. The full ceremony will posted online soon.



BEST WEB SERIES (DRAMA)
DEVANITY - devanity.com
HITMAN 101 - badguyfilms.com/hitman101
HUSTLING - hustling.tv
OUT WITH DAD - outwithdad.com
THE OUTS - theouts.squarespace.com
RAGGED ISLE - raggedisle.com

THE SPOILER ALERT Indie Soap Awards Red Carpet Show

Hit web series THE SPOILER ALERT, hosted by Justin St. Louis, was on the red carpet at the 4th Annual Indie Soap Awards. Check out their ISA4 coverage below:



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ISA4 Spotlight: RAGGED ISLE

Stars from TV, Broadway and The Web will come together on February 19 at ISA4: the 4th Annual Indie Soap Awards in order to celebrate and honor the very best of the rapidly-growing indie series genre. As we countdown to the big night, We Love Soaps is spotlighting the nominated series and asking producers to tell us their favorite episode of the past year.

We continue this special ISA4 feature today with the RAGGED ISLE, which won the Best Web Series (Drama) award last year and is nominated this year for seven awards:

BEST WEB SERIES (DRAMA)
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR (DRAMA) - Ian Carlsen
BEST WRITING (DRAMA) - Greg Tulonen, Rick Dalton, Karen L. Dodd, Barry Dodd & Jacob Lear
BEST DIRECTING (DRAMA) - Barry Dodd
BEST SOUNDTRACK (ALL SHOWS)
BEST EDITING (ALL SHOWS) - Barry Dodd
BEST VISUAL/SPECIAL EFFECTS (ALL SHOWS) - Eric Anderson & Derek Kimball

"I'd say Episode Fourteen 'Sometimes You Can't Make It on Your Own' is probably my favorite this season," RAGGED ISLE producer, director and writer Barry Dodd told us. "There are lots of reasons why I choose this one. It's the last episode of the series that still leaves what is happening on the island a little bit behind the curtain and it's got a great sort of calm before the storm feel to it."

4th Annual Indie Soap Awards Nominations Announced

4th Annual Indie Soap Awards Nominations Announced Today

- Surge of "extraordinary" shows this year; committee "inspired;" faced with "excruciating choices."

- DEVANITY and OUT WITH DAD most nominated drama series; HUSBANDS, THE BLOODY MARY SHOW,  and PRETTY most nominated comedies.

- Winners to be announced Tuesday, February 19, 2013 at legendary awards show.

New York, NY (December 17, 2012) - Could this be a turning point in the history of Television? The entire world wide web?

"After breaking all these records (to begin with, we had the most submissions ever and the most nominations ever) we faced a daunting task.  Excruciating choices.  Haggling and horse trading were at an all-time high. But the quantity of high quality made it all worthwhile.  We were definitely inspired.

"But honestly, we barely avoided fisticuffs during the final meeting! There just has never been so much carnage after reducing each category to only six nominees," said We Love Soaps founder Roger Newcomb.

"We used to argue on behalf of a potential nominee, 'it's so good, it could be on TV.'  This time, to make the cut, it had to be, 'this is excellent, it's better than anything on TV!'  It's extraordinary. I think we've passed an historic landmark for the genre.  In so many ways, the shows on this list are better than the scripted, serialized programming on network Television.  Than anything on network Television." 

Over 40 web series received at least one nomination.  Almost 100 were submitted.  To be considered, among other qualifications, shows had to be independent, scripted, professional and serialized. And, they had to broadcast at least three episodes in 2012.  In addition to general excellence in TV programming, a special premium is placed on series which follow the mission of the Awards' charity sponsor, the Indie Series Network.  Their mission is to bring quality, independently-produced TV series, with socially relevant messaging and artistic merit, to under-served audiences.

Happily, everyone who worked on one of the series that was accepted for consideration, whether nominated or not, is invited (and encouraged) to attend the enormous, star-studded, industry-only gala celebration planned for February 19, 2013 at New World Stages in New York City. All-access Guest Passes for the event (really a series of events) just went on sale - at a discount, early bird rate, for now. Series will all be able to sit together for the actual Award Presentation Ceremony as long as they reserve their assigned seats before January 5.

NOW, THE NOMINEES

DEVANITY and OUT WITH DAD led all drama series with nine nominations each.  HUSBANDS, THE BLOODY MARY SHOW and PRETTY each had nine nominations on the comedy side.

Complete list of 4th Annual Indie Soap Awards nominations:

BEST WEB SERIES (DRAMA)
DEVANITY
HITMAN 101
HUSTLING
OUT WITH DAD
THE OUTS 
RAGGED ISLE

CYBER MONDAY: 12 Great Christmas Present Ideas for Soap Opera Fans (Shop Online & Save Time, Money)

U.S. consumers spent a record $1.042 billion online on Black Friday, a 26% increase over the same day last year, according to new figures from comScore, an Internet analytics firm. Shoppers also found time amid the cooking, eating and watching football to spend an additional $633 million on Thanksgiving Day, a 32% jump from the year before.
Black Friday is the heaviest online shopping day of the year so far. The sales total is the first time e-commerce spending on that day has topped $1 billion.

It's "The Year of the Soap" and it has been a good year for soap-related merchandise (books, DVDs, CDs, etc.). What are the soapiest super-deals this Cyber Monday? We proudly present our Top 12 Great Christmas Present Ideas for Soap Opera Fans:

INDIE HOUSE: FUMBLING THRU, CHOOSING FATE, BIG CITY, IN BETWEEN MEN, BROKEN AT LOVE, TAMI, EMPIRE, FAILING UPWARDS, NICE GUY

STAR POWER:  Hillary, Bobbie and Michele are FUMBLING

Gossip, secrets, leaks; kudos, picks, congrats - in the Indie Soap Web Series (Indies) world, this is where they live. Listen up: Kevin's Indie House.

This is the best part of my job.

Some series I cover because they're the Big Thing Right Now. Some, because they provide solid "teaching moments" for others in the industry. Some, I would even admit, I mention because I'm in love with the showrunner.

But the best is that rare occasion when I get to boost an Indie I would watch obsessively on my own, even if I were an accountant, or a cat groomer, and not a web series guru. (You didn't know I was a web series guru, did you?) When I'm 100% honest with myself, there aren't all that many - the ones I would look forward to even if (and it's almost impossible to imagine) I didn't really like web series.

RESULTS: Indie Soap Best of the Week Poll (August 12-18, 2012); RAGGED ISLE No. 1

The results are in from the We Love Soaps Indie Soap Best of the Week poll for August 12-18, 2012. The second season finale of RAGGED ISLE came in at No. 1 followed by 13 WITCHES, FUMBLING THRU THE PIECES and AVE 43.

Check out the complete results below including the Favorite Actor, Actress and Couple of the Week:

WATCH: RAGGED ISLE Season Two Finale

RAGGED ISLE's second season finale has just been posted online! In the episode titled "Where Did it All Go Wrong," trying to get to the bottom of everything that's been happening on the island, Paul escorts someone back to where it all began under the cloak of darkness. Watch the episode below:

RESULTS: Indie Soap Best of the Week Poll (July 22-28, 2012); RAGGED ISLE No. 1

The results are in from the We Love Soaps Indie Soap Best of the Week poll for July 22-28, 2012. The latest episode of RAGGED ISLE's second season, "Moment of Surrender," finished on top followed by the series finale of MISS BEHAVE, and the penultimate episode of ANACOSTIA Season 3.

WATCH: "Moment of Surrender" on RAGGED ISLE

As what is perhaps the best week in Indie Soaps of the year continues, RAGGED ISLE releases another excellent episode.

Im "Moment of Surrender," nearing the end, Gertie receives an urgent visit from old friends; Agent Thorne confronts her right hand man Griggs; and Dr. Hoffman and Sheriff Dalton hit the books.

Watch the new episode of RAGGED ISLE below:

RESULTS: Indie Soap Best of the Week Poll (July 8-14, 2012); MISS BEHAVE No. 1

The results are in from the We Love Soaps Indie Soap Best of the Week poll for the week of July 8-14, 2012, and it was one of the tightest races ever. The first part of MISS BEHAVE's finale, "Goodbye, For Now," finished on top this week followed by a new episode of RAGGED ISLE and the Season 2 finale of OUT WITH DAD.

Check out the complete show results below as well as the Favorite Actor, Actress and Couple of the Week:

INDIE HOUSE: OUT WITH DAD, PETE WINNING, HUSTLING, PIECES, MISS BEHAVE, THE EX-BOX, EMPIRE, RAGGED ISLE

LASER PIRATES:  Jason Leaver takes up swashbuckling.

Gossip, secrets, leaks; kudos, picks, congrats - in the Indie Soap Web Series (Indies) world, this is where they live. Listen up: Kevin's Indie House.

What do loony, laser-powered pirates and soulful, coming-of-age lesbians have in common? Absolutely nothing - except for Jason Leaver, Toronto's Indie icon.

WATCH: RAGGED ISLE Continues With "Sometimes You Can't Make It on Your Own"

Season 2 of Indie Soap Award-winning RAGGED ISLE continues today with an all-new episode.

In Sometimes You Can't Make It on Your Own," Vicki and Paul take others into their confidence, Agent Thorne gets to know Deputy Dan, and Dr. Monroe checks up on Gertie. Be sure to notice the references to some of our other favorite web series during the episode.

Watch the new RAGGED ISLE episode below and let us know what you think.

RESULTS: Indie Soap Best of the Week Poll (June 24-30, 2012); RAGGED ISLE No. 1

The results are in from the We Love Soaps Indie Soap Best of the Week poll for the week of June 24-30, 2012. The latest episode of RAGGED ISLE, "Drowning Man," finished on top this week followed by the season finale of BREAKING POINT and the season premiere of BROOKLYN IS IN LOVE.

Check out the complete show results below as well as the Favorite Actor, Actress and Couple of the Week: